SA Coat of Arms 4.jpg Media Statement, 9 January 2016 Shocking Mail and Guardian Fabrication about Deputy President's Absence The Presidency is shocked by the fabrication published by the Mail and Guardian claiming that there are tensions between President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa because the Deputy President did not attend the ANC gala dinner last night, 8 January 2016. The newspaper goes on to claim that the absence of the Deputy President took other leaders by surprise and also mentions a lot of other gossip and innuendo. This is preposterous. The Deputy President was in Juba, South Sudan in his capacity as a special envoy of President Zuma, as announced to the whole country before departure. He was supposed to arrive back in South Africa in time for the governing party dinner. However, his South African Air Force plane developed technical difficulties and he had to return back home commercially. He landed back around 1.30am in South Africa during which time the gala dinner had ended. Had the reporter inquired, he would have obtained the facts before spreading lies to the public. We hope that the Mail and Guardian will endeavour to improve reporting standards. The Department of Defence is currently exploring solutions to the problems of the current SA Air Force planes that break down and cause inconvenience to the President and the Deputy President. Issued by: The Presidency, Pretoria Enquiries: Bongani Majola on 082 339 1993 or [email protected] and Ronnie Mamoepa on 082 990 4853 www.thepresidency.gov.za -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
